Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
life children mistake
Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.
life half world
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
life math culture
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
happiness home house
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
life friendship food
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
happiness today tomorrow
we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
love friendship happiness
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
fool fools-and-foolishness law man talks
The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool
false honor human man natural obscurity patience praise spite sweet wish
It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart; but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a
adversity gods heathen man might pleasure spectacle struggling wise writer
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure
bridle dying fifteen horse manages paid per pouring schoolboy seven spoon taxed youth
The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him
man minutes together
I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together
burning charm days direct food given god laughter life man marble plain steps support ways
Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble